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Showing post thumbnail (attachment) on the archive.php category listing

You could use the WordPress function get_children. Although I don’t think it makes a difference, performance-wise. <?php while (have_posts()) : the_post(); ?> <?php $attachment = array_values( get_children( array( ‘post_parent’ => $post->ID, ‘post_type’ => ‘attachment’, ‘post_mime_type’ => ‘image’, ‘order’ => ‘ASC’, ‘numberposts’ => 1 ) ) ); ?> <div class=”searchItem” style=”clear:both;”> <h3 id=”post-<?php the_ID(); ?>”> <?php … Read more

How can i display the posts per week in a particular month?

You’ll need to add a condition to the posts_where filter in wordpress. I have an example here for only pulling posts that are from the current post’s date and earlier: Add this to functions.php // filter wp_query when $dated_before is set function dg_dated_before($where) { global $wp_query, $wpdb, $dated_before; if (isset($dated_before)): $where = $where . ” … Read more

How to pull image from first post and display it on monthly Archive page?

This will get the first image listed in the “gallery” section of your post (not the visible gallery if there is one, but the one if you click on insert image) http://snipplr.com/view/12513/display-the-first-image-attachment-of-a-wordpress-post/

just can’t get date-based archives per post-type to work

Did you add ‘has_archive => ‘my_slug’ to your register_post_type() arguments? That should at least help you with your second problem.

Date archive permalinks for custom taxonomy

You can just use: /2011/08/?taxonomy=term I’m not sure how to create a rewrite rule though to make it “pretty”

Display direct children of the current custom taxonomy in taxonomy.php template

See the Codex. The wp_list_categories allows you to set a child_of and a depth (in this case 1, we only want to go one level down). See the link to the Codex about styling it; there’s a whole host of options. <?php $term = get_queried_object(); wp_list_categories(array( ‘taxonomy’=>$term->taxonomy, ‘child_of’=>(int) $term->term_id, ‘hide_empty’=>0, ‘depth’=>1, )); ?> I’ve only … Read more

Category List (Archive) Page Template By Category

You can create a category template named category-foo.php this will be applied only to category with slug foo. You can thus create custom template for different categories. Source – Codex page for Category template Note – If you want to do some minor changes such as show foo in a category-1 and bar on other, … Read more

Custom permalink for search and pagination

I believe the primary reason that the GET parameter format is still used for searches is that search forms are regular GET forms that when submitted form URLs with the GET parameters appended. But a further problem with using custom URLs to capture searches is that search terms can be arbitrary text, including slashes, etc, … Read more

WP_Query() returns null when results exist!

The is_single function (used in your excerpt.php file) returns true only when the main query contains one single post. Since you’re calling get_template_part from an archives page, your query contains more than one post, so is_single returns false and your excerpt.php file bails. Remove the check for is_single and you should be good to go. … Read more

Custom post types archive redirect

The link to the archive page is saved into WordPress rewrite rules. These rules are used to locate several locations on the front end of your WordPress system. When you change the slug of a Custom Post Type, the normal pages will redirect directly to the new location, but the archive page won’t, this because … Read more

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